masoni, Gobius Day [F.] 1873:107 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 (pt 1) (art. 4) (for 21 Jan. 1873); ref. 14185] Mumbai, India. Syntypes and/or Day specimens: AMS B.8089 (1, syntype); NMW 33926 (1); RMNH 1883 (1); ZSI A.218 (1), 80 (1, lost). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:161 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:299 [ref. 25110]. Reasons for loss of ZSI type specimens during WWII see Chopra 1947:349-350 [ref. 33077]. •Valid as Aulopareia masoni (Kottelat 2013:400 [ref. 32989]). •Valid as Acentrogobius masoni (Day 1873) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:926 [ref. 20764], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S118 [ref. 27377], Suresh et al. 2018:281 [ref. 36495], Parenti 2021:80 [ref. 38603]). •Synonym of Aulopareia unicolor (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Larson & Jaafar 2022:508 [ref. 39363]). Current status: Synonym of Aulopareia unicolor (Valenciennes 1837). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Habitat: brackish.